'Renascent' [London Records, 2026]

CD: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LMS1725758 / FACD 2.51)
LP: UK 31.07.2026 (yellow transparent vinyl, London Record, LMS1725759 / 5061017257592 / FACT 2.51)
LP: UK 31.07.2026 (Deluxe Version LP - alternative artwork / bottle green transparent vinyl, London Records, LMS1725760 / 5061017257608 / FACT 2.51S)
LP/flexi: UK 31.07.2026 (Rough Trade Exclusive LP - split purple / green LP with bonus flexi disc of ‘All They See is Fire’, London Records, LMS1725890 / FACT 2.51RT)
LP/DVD: UK 31.07.2026 (Special Boxed Edition LP - alternative artwork / heavyweight black vinyl / DVD / 4 art prints / poster / slipcase, London Records, LMS1725889 / 5061017258896 / FACT 2.51SP)
CS: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LMS1725861 / FACT 2.51C)

Tracklisting

Echoes In The Memory
Your Shadow At Morning
Time Present And Time Past
Agonistes
Liars
Vapour In A Matchbox
Your Shadow At Evening
Sargasso Sea
Scammer
For Friends Everywhere
All They See Is Fire (CD / digital bonus track / on flexi-disc with FACT 2.51RT)

Notes

Transcript of press release

'Renascent', the new album by The Durutti Column, is released on Friday 31 July 2026. The album will be available across a number of formats including digital, CD (both with the bonus track 'All They See is Fire') and transparent yellow vinyl. There will also be a limited edition vinyl featuring alternative artwork, pressed on bottle green vinyl and featuring an oversized booklet. The official Durutti Column store will host some very limited editions including a cassette, and a very special edition slipcase version of the album (limited to 1,000 copies worldwide) with alternative artwork, heavyweight black vinyl, a DVD with unique visualisers for every track, 4 art prints and a folded poster. Rough Trade have their own exclusive edition of the album (limited to 500 copies), a split purple / green vinyl version, with a bonus flexi-disc of 'All They See is Fire'.

Intricate yet unflashy, melancholic yet quietly ecstatic, The Durutti Column have always sounded​indelibly, like themselves. Across five decades they have moved fluidly between indie chamber music, modern classical suites, sampledelia, dance experimentation, and flamenco-tinged pop, while remaining unmistakably cornerstone by Vini Reilly's delicate, expressive guitar voice. Now, 46 years after their debut and 16 after their last album, The Durutti Column (a trio of Vini with longstanding drummer / percussionist Bruce Mitchell and producer / instrumentalist Keir Stewart) return with Renascent, a new album that both honours their past and reaffirms their enduring creative vitality.

From their arrival in 1980 with The Return of the Durutti Column, released on Tony Wilson's Factory Records, The Durutti Column stood apart. While post-punk leaned into the urban and the abrasive, Reilly's music was pastoral, romantic, and introspective. In the decades since, that once singular sensibility has quietly reshaped the musical landscape. In recent years a new generation of artists as diverse as Frank Ocean, The Avalanches, Yung Lean, Youth Lagoon and Mark William Lewis have declared or demonstrated Durutti's influence. In the past year Blood Orange sampled 'Sing to Me' for 2025's single 'The Field', and the band was cited by Harry Styles as a key influence on 2026's Kiss All the Time. Disco Occasionally.

Styles has involved the band in his curation of this year's Meltdown Festival, where they will be celebrated with a special concert For Vini: A Tribute to The Durutti Column on 17 June 2026. Renascent producer Keir Stewart (guitar, bass, samples, keys) will be joined by Durutti collaborators Liz Rossi (violin, piano), Caolfhionn Rose (vocals, piano) and Sam Morris (French horn) as they interpret key moments across the band's 6-decade career.

In recent years songs by The Durutti Column have surfaced in major cultural touchstones, from television and gaming soundtracks to high fashion runways. Once existing beyond trends, they now find themselves rediscovered, their work resonating with audiences encountering it anew. Renascent, meaning "being reborn, reviving, springing up afresh", captures both this renewed visibility and a deeper artistic resurgence.

That influence has only grown in recent years. Their music has surfaced in major cultural touchstones, from television and gaming soundtracks to high fashion runways. Once existing beyond trends, The Durutti Column now find themselves rediscovered, their work resonating with audiences encountering it anew. Renascent, meaning "being reborn, reviving, springing up afresh," captures both this renewed visibility and a deeper artistic resurgence.

The album marks the group's first collection of new material since 2010's A Paean to Wilson. It also signals a symbolic return to origins, carrying a Factory Too catalogue number in collaboration with Oliver Wilson, continuing the legacy of Factory Records. Visually, Renascent reunites the band with original Factory design collaborators, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir of 8vo, whose artwork mirrors the music's balance of modernist precision and romantic warmth through rich, sensuous color.

Musically, Renascent exists in a dialogue between past and present. Tracks such as 'Time Present and Time Past' evoke a cyclical sense of motion: forward-looking yet reflective. Reilly's improvisational approach remains central: spontaneous, intuitive, and resistant to formal constraints. "Every single piece of music writes itself," he notes, and the album's recordings preserve that immediacy. Pieces like 'Vapour in a Matchbox' exemplify this ethos, transforming fleeting inspiration into compositions of lasting emotional depth.

Longtime collaborator Bruce Mitchell recalls the instinctive nature of working with Reilly: ideas captured quickly, often in a single take, before they can be overworked. Producer and bassist Keir Stewart expands on this philosophy, emphasizing freedom and presence; capturing creativity in its rawest moment rather than refining it into something overly deliberate.

This approach shaped the making of Renascent, an album assembled over several years in an organic fashion. Recording sessions often took place informally, sometimes in Reilly's own kitchen, with minimal equipment and an emphasis on immediacy. The result is a body of work that feels both intimate and expansive, grounded in the moment yet resonant over time.

A defining feature of the album is its spirit of renewal through reinterpretation. 'For Friends Everywhere' revisits 'For Belgian Friends' (from 1980's A Factory Quartet) has been rendered renascent by producer Keir Stewart's studio needlework. Rearranged as an orchestral octet it transforms a long-standing live favorite into a richly textured piece imbued with reflection and emotional weight. It stands as both a tribute to their past and a continuation into the future.

For Reilly, "empathy is the essence of humanity, if you lose that ability to empathise, it's the deadening of your own soul." Renascent deepens that tradition, with many of its pieces shaped by personal connections and human stories. That empathy is also expressed in the love that Stewart and Mitchell have put into realising Reilly's vision. "Vin's songs are constantly surprising," says Mitchell, "you want to keep on listening to them over and over again." On hearing the completed Renascent Mitchell says: "it's like a child that leaves home for a long time and then they return and you love them all the more all over again."

This empathetic impulse runs through the new album: the first track 'Liars' consists of Reilly repeating "I am sorry, I love you". It's also evident in Renascent being among the most collaborative albums Durutti have made – and not just because of the increased input of Mitchell and particularly of Stewart. Reilly's Manchester neighbour, folktronica artist Caoilfhionn Rose sings on the stately, yearning 'Agonistes' and sings and plays piano on the gorgeous, hymn-like 'Sargasso Sea'.

Despite the passage of time, Reilly's artistic philosophy remains rooted in motion and response. Creativity, for him, is an ongoing process; reactive, immediate, and alive. That sense of momentum carries through Renascent, an album that does not seek to recapture the past but to reanimate it, allowing it to evolve in new and unexpected ways.

Few people are more unpredictable than Reilly, who says, "From the moment we're born we're never ever instigative, only ever reactive. It's like Newton's law of motion, if you're not pushing against anything, you lose momentum." With Renascent The Durutti Column have created an album that feels both timeless and newly awakened; an understated yet powerful statement from an artist still in pursuit of the moment.

The Durutti Column are Renascent.

'Vini Reilly' [London Records LP, LMS17258624]

LP: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LC77554 / FACT 244)

Tracklisting

1. Love No More
2. Pol In G
3. Opera I
4. People's Pleasure Park
5. Red Square
6. Finding The Sea
7. Otis
8. William B
9. They Work Every Day
10. Opera II
11. Homage To Catalonea
12. Requiem Again
13. My Country

Notes

Also available on 1CD which has the same tracklisting as CD1 in the 2024 35th Anniversary edition.

'Vini Reilly' [London Records CD, 2026, LMS1725876]

CD: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LMS1725876 / FACD 244)

Tracklisting

1. Love No More
2. Pol In G
3. Opera I
4. People's Pleasure Park
5. Red Square
6. Finding The Sea
7. Otis
8. William B
9. They Work Every Day
10. Opera II
11. Homage To Catalonea
12. Requiem Again
13. My Country
14. Otis (No Samples)
15. Dry
16. My Country (Monarchy Mix)

Notes

CD tracklisting is the same as CD1 from the 2024 Record Store Day 35th Anniversary edition. Also available on 1LP.

The Return of The Durutti Column [45th Anniversary Edition, London Records 2CD]

CD: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725575]

Tracklisting

CD1 1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct
5. Untitled
6. Beginning
7. Jazz
8. Sketch for Winter
9. Collette
10. In 'D'
11. Lips That Would Kiss
12. Madeleine
13. Experiment in Fifth (Graveyard Studio Demo)
14. The First Aspect Of The Same Thing (Martin Hannett ft. Vini Reilly)
15. The Second Aspect Of The Same Thing (Martin Hannett ft. Vini Reilly)
16. Piece For An Ideal
17. Sleep Will Come

CD2

1. No Communication
2. Thin Ice
3. Won't Look Out (Gammer and His Familiars ft. Vini Reilly)
4. Intervals (Home Recording -1978)
5. Katharine (Home Recording -1978)
6. Untitled (Home Recording -1978)
7. Conduct (Home Recording -1978)
8. I’m a Face (Studio Demo – 1980)
9. Sketch for Summer (Studio Demo – 1980)
10. Requiem for a Father ((Studio Demo – 1980)
11. Madeleine (Studio Demo – 1980)
12. Katharine (Studio Demo – 1980)
13. Lindsay (Studio Demo – 1980)
14. For Belgian Friends (Studio Demo – 1980)
15. Detail for Annik (Live – Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
16. Sketch for Summer (Live – Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
17. Requiem for a Father (Live – Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
18. Conduct (Live – Brussels 1981)
19. Self Portrait (Live – Brussels 1981)
20. For Belgian Friends (Live – Brussels 1981)
21. Sketch for Summer (Live – Brussels 1981)

Notes

2025 marks 45 years since the release of The Durutti Column’s landmark album The Return Of The Durutti Column. To celebrate, London Records announces a very special reissue of the seminal Manchester band’s 1980 debut, set for release on 28 November 2025 and available for pre-order now at the official Durutti Column online store.

The Return Of The Durutti Column remains one of Factory's most enduring and important works: fragile, otherworldly, and quietly radical. Produced by Martin Hannett, it showcased Vini Reilly’s distinctive, delicate guitar work against Hannett’s ambient textures, post-punk reverb and glacial electronics.

The 45th Anniversary Edition is available in several formats:

The Deluxe Sandpaper LP, replicating the rare first pressing and limited to 500 numbered copies worldwide. Each sleeve has been spray-painted by hand with the original catalogue number, FACT 14. This edition includes a unique printed inner sleeve featuring an essay by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, housed inside a protective outer cover.

The Standard Edition LP, replicating the second pressing, commonly known as the ‘Dufy’ sleeve (after a featured triptych of images by French painter Jean Dufy), with the outer sleeve printed on the same textured card as the 1980 version. The inner sleeve features an essay by Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice. Rough Trade will stock a unique pressing of this edition as part of their Essentials range, pressed on black-and-white marbled vinyl and limited to 500 copies (with bonus sandpaper postcard) from here.

All vinyl editions have been remastered from the original source tapes, recently rediscovered in a Stockport warehouse, and cut at half-speed for maximum audio fidelity. The tracklisting includes the original album plus 'Untitled' (featured on later iterations), alongside two further tracks: 'Lips That Would Kiss' and 'Madeleine', both originally issued on Factory Records’ Belgian sister label Factory Benelux in autumn 1980.

The Expanded Hardback Book Edition is a 2CD, 38-track collection housed in a tall storybook format with a 48-page booklet. Alongside essays from James Nice and Bobby Gillespie, this edition also includes a new piece by Mojo journalist Ian Harrison. The expanded audio features the vinyl tracklisting plus material from the 1980 bonus flexidisc Testcard, first recordings, studio and home demos, live performances, and several previously unreleased tracks. The artwork reflects the special 1985 boxed cassette edition (part of Factory’s series alongside releases from Joy Division, New Order and A Certain Ratio) and is printed on authentically sourced paper stock.

The first 500 orders from the official store received an exclusive bonus CD, Lost Songs and Sketches, featuring early live recordings and a rare 1981 audio interview with Vini Reilly.

The Return of The Durutti Column 45th Anniversary Edition [London Records LP]

LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725576, regular edition]
LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725583, sandpaper edition]
LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725584, Rough Trade Essentials Edition w/ Black & White Marble Vinyl]

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct

Side Two

1. Untitled
2. Beginning
3. Jazz
4. Sketch for Winter
5. Collette
6. In ‘D’
7. Lips That Would Kiss
8. Madeleine

Notes

2025 marks 45 years since the release of The Durutti Column’s landmark album The Return Of The Durutti Column. To celebrate, London Records announces a very special reissue of the seminal Manchester band’s 1980 debut, set for release on 28 November 2025 and available for pre-order now at the official Durutti Column online store.

The Return Of The Durutti Column remains one of Factory's most enduring and important works: fragile, otherworldly, and quietly radical. Produced by Martin Hannett, it showcased Vini Reilly’s distinctive, delicate guitar work against Hannett’s ambient textures, post-punk reverb and glacial electronics.

The 45th Anniversary Edition is available in several formats:

The Deluxe Sandpaper LP, replicating the rare first pressing and limited to 500 numbered copies worldwide. Each sleeve has been spray-painted by hand with the original catalogue number, FACT 14. This edition includes a unique printed inner sleeve featuring an essay by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, housed inside a protective outer cover.

The Standard Edition LP, replicating the second pressing, commonly known as the ‘Dufy’ sleeve (after a featured triptych of images by French painter Jean Dufy), with the outer sleeve printed on the same textured card as the 1980 version. The inner sleeve features an essay by Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice. Rough Trade will stock a unique pressing of this edition as part of their Essentials range, pressed on black-and-white marbled vinyl and limited to 500 copies (with bonus sandpaper postcard) from here.

All vinyl editions have been remastered from the original source tapes, recently rediscovered in a Stockport warehouse, and cut at half-speed for maximum audio fidelity. The tracklisting includes the original album plus 'Untitled' (featured on later iterations), alongside two further tracks: 'Lips That Would Kiss' and 'Madeleine', both originally issued on Factory Records’ Belgian sister label Factory Benelux in autumn 1980.

The first 500 orders from the official store received an exclusive bonus CD, Lost Songs and Sketches, featuring early live recordings and a rare 1981 audio interview with Vini Reilly.

'Vini Reilly' [London Records, Record Store Day 2024]

LP: UK 20.04.2024 (London Records, LMS1725126 / Fact 244)

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Love No More
2. Pol in G
3. Act I Opera
4. People’s Pleasure Park
5. Finding the Sea

Side Two

1. Otis
2. They Work Every Day
3. Act II
4. Opera
5. Homage to Catalonea
6. My Country

Notes

35th Anniversary edition of the seminal 1989 album. The album is presented in the famous (and as to now unseen) ‘rejected’ sleeve by 8vo. Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order). Vinyl mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works. Numbered, limited edition (2000 copies) exclusive to Record Store Day 2024.

Greetings from S.G.V. The Greetings LP [RSD 2024, Lantern Records]

LP: IT 20.04.2024 (Lantern Records/Materiali Sonori, LANR045)

Tracklisting / Credits

Side A

BLAINE L. REININGER - GREETINGS ONE

1. JAPANESE DREAM
2. BISMALLAH

Performed & composed by BLAINE L. REININGER
Clarinet on BISMALLAH by STEVEN BROWN
Engineered by FRANK LIEVAART for SOUNDWORKS - BRUXELLES

STOCKHOLM MONSTERS - GREETINGS TWO

1. PARTY LINE
2. MILITIA
3. DUMBSTRUCK

Performed by

TONI FRANCE - KARL FRANCE - JOHN RHODES - SHAN HIRA

Recorded at SUITE 16 STUDIOS - ROCHDALE
Engineered by SHAN HIRA & C. J.
Produced & composed by STOCKHOLM MONSTERS

Side B

THE DURUTTI COLUMN - GREETINGS THREE

1. FLORENCE SUNSET (V. Reilly) 5:50
2. ALL THAT LOVE AND MATHS CAN DO (V. Reilly - J. Metcalfe) 3:33
3. SAN GIOVANNI DAWN (V. Reilly) 3:55
4. FOR FRIENDS IN ITALY (V. Reilly) 4:35
Performed by

VINI REILLY - JOHN METCALFE - BRUCE MITCHELL
Recorded at CRIMSON STUDIO - MANCHESTER
All songs written and produced by VINI REILLY
Except 'ALL THAT LOVE...' by VINI REILLY and JOHN METCALFE

Notes

GREETING5 FROM S.G.V.

Originally Released by Materiali Sonori in 1987
® 2024 Lantern Records
www.lanterneditions.com

LANTERN REC materiali sonori

Project by GIAMPIERO BIGAZZI

"Overdue re-issue of the first three 12” in the record series dedicated to musicians who took part to the Greetings festival. It happened in 1987, it was time for Materiali Sonori 10th anniversary, an historic goal for the label/collective born in the small Tuscany village of San Giovanni Valdarno. The small celebration brought to life a box collecting the first 3 Eps of the Greetings from S.G.V. series. The series was intended as symbolic sound postcard, made with various musicians with whom the collective label shared a path, whether small or long. The Durutti Column, The Stockholm Monsters and Blaine R. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) are among the artist who took part to the project, here collected for the very first time. Lantern is pleased to pay tribute to the work of people whose passion, attitude, commitment and genuineness inspired this adventure still true to these days. “Our presence in this small tuscan town is almost casual… physically we were born and grew up here, while our hearts and our minds were travelling to Paris, Berlin, Brussels, New York or London”" (Giampiero Bigazzi of Materiali Sonori, taken from the original inner sleeves notes).

'Vini Reilly' [35th Anniversary 5-disc boxset, London Records]

CD/DVD: UK 19.04.2024 (London Records, LMS1725127 / FACD 244

Tracklisting

CD1. Vini Reilly album + 3 Bonus tracks [16 tracks]

1. Love No More
2. Pol In G
3. Opera I
4. People's Pleasure Park
5. Red Square
6. Finding The Sea
7. Otis
8. William B
9. They Work Every Day
10. Opera II
11. Homage To Catalonea
12. Requiem Again
13. My Country
14. Otis (No Samples)
15. Dry
16. My Country (Monarchy Mix)

CD2. The Sporadic Recordings [28 tracks], a limited edition CD from 1989 [SPORE 1]

1. Buddhist Prayer
2. Pathway
3. Nile Opera
4. Shirt No.7
5. Kind Of Love
6. Rob Grey's Elegy
7. Misere
8. For Steven Patrick
9. We Stumble
10. Sketch For A Manchester Summer 1989
11. Arpeggiator II
12. Diazepam 5 Mgs
13. But Was I...?
14. Pol In A♭
15. Real Drums - Real Drummer
16. Another Mirror - Another Wall
17. 30 Oldham Street
18. 4.10 AM
19. For Lydia
20. Detail For Heidi & Jodie
21. Zinni's Dance
22. PPP Version
23. For Lucy H
24. 4.30 AM
25. It's A Bright Guilty World - Pt 1
26. It's A Bright Guilty World - Pt 2
27. Nile Reprise
28. Diazepam 10 Mgs

CD3. Womad Live EP plus bonus live tracks and demos [16 tracks]

1. Otis (Womad Live)
2. English Landscape Tradition (Womad Live)
3. Finding The Sea (Womad Live)
4. Bordeaux (Womad Live)
5. Day Is Over (Live)
6. Red Shoes (Live)
7. Opera II
8. Finding The Sea I
9. PPP (Demo)
10. Juan Montero (Sketch 1)
11. Sample Tune
12. Finding The Sea (2)
13. Juan Montero (Sketch 2)
14. William B (Demo)
15. Sketches On Stratocaster
16. Zinni And Vini Tune

DVD1. An exclusive DVD, Live from Porto 1988Â [16 tracks]

1. Mercy Theme
2. Arpeggiator
3. What It Is To Me
4. Jongleur Grey
5. Pol In B
6. Bordeaux Sequence
7. Jacqueline
8. Sketch For Dawn
9. Tomorrow
10. Requiem Again
11. English Landscape Tradition
12. When The World
13. The Missing Boy
14. Red Shoes
15. The Beggar
16. Sketch For Summer

CD5. Bonus 1-track 3-inch mini CD "I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong" a replica of the bonus addition from the original CD pressing

1. I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong

Notes

Includes new essay by Durutti Column / Factory Records expert James Nice, liner notes by band member Bruce Mitchell, liner notes from Anthony Wilson, interview extracts with Vini Reilly and restored images and outtake images.

Cover – Mark Warner
Engineer – Nick Garside
Executive Producer – Paul Miller
Hair – Andrew Berry
Producer – Vini Reilly
Producer, Engineer – Stephen Street
Sleeve – Johnson Panas
Sleeve Notes – Anthony H. Wilson, Bruce Mitchell, James Nice

Tracks 14-16 on CD1 are bonus cuts not included on the original 1989 album, and are released under licence from The Durutti Column.

Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids [London Records]

CD: UK 30.06.23 (London Records, LMS5521915)
2LP: UK 30.06.23 (London Records, LMS5521916)

CD Tracklisting

1. Organ Donor
2. Pigeon
3. I B Yours
4. Twenty Trees
5. Abuse
6. Drinking Song
7. Sing To Me
8. My Last Kiss
9. For Rachel
10. Highfield Choir
11. Epilogue
12. It's Your Life, Babe
13. Kiss of Def
14. In the City
15. New Order Tribute
16. Drinking Song (version)

2LP Tracklisting

LP one

A1 Organ Donor
A2 Pigeon
A3 I B Yours
A4 Twenty Trees

B5 Abuse
B6 Drinking Song
B7 Sing To Me

LP two

C8 My Last Kiss
C9 For Rachel
C10 Highfield Choir
C11 Epilogue

D12 It's Your Life, Babe
D13 Kiss of Def
D14 In the City
D15 New Order Tribute
D16 Drinking Song (version)

Notes

25th Anniversary edition of Time Was GIGANTIC... When we were kids by The Durutti Column, featuring expanded artwork by original designers 8vo, new liner notes by James Nice and 5 bonus tracks of rarities. An A3 reproduction of the 1998 Manchester Cathedral show for In The City was made available to coincide with this release and bundled in certain packages.

The album is available via:

https://thedurutticolumn.tmstor.es

"It sounds so sweet: Reilly's shimmering guitar spinning merry cartwheels behind Eley Rudge's angelic Harriet Wheeler warble, or basking lazily in pools of ambient calm. It's a smooth as porcelain, as mannered as a lily pond and as forgettable as your last breath."

- NME

Keeping Control – Independent Music From Manchester 1977-1981 [Cherry Red, CRCDBOX145]

3CD: UK 26.05.23 (Cherry Red, CRCDBOX145)

Tracklisting

Disc one

1 BUZZCOCKS Orgasm Addict
2 SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS The Bitch
3 THE NOSEBLEEDS Fascist Pigs
4 THE DRONES City Drones
5 THE PANIK Murder
6 V2 Nothing To Do
7 JILTED JOHN Jilted John
8 GYRO Central Detention Centre
9 SALFORD JETS Lookin' At The Squares
10 JOHN THE POSTMAN'S PUERILE Kawalski Of The Seaview Has Got The Best Hairstyle I've Ever Seen
11 ALBERTO Y LOST TRIOS PARANOIAS Fuck You
12 JOHN COOPER CLARKE I Don't Want To Be Nice
13 THE TEARDROPS Pompous
14 PASSAGE Slit Machine
15 SPHERICAL OBJECTS Sweet Tooth
16 STEVE MIRO Smiling in Reverse
17 JOY DIVISION Digital
18 THE SMIRKS American Patriots
19 NOTSENSIBLES Lying On The Sofa
20 48 CHAIRS Psycle Sluts
21 EDDIE FICTION UFO Part 2
22 MELLOTRON Warriors From Space
23 SPEED She's All There
24 GENOCIDE Renegade
25 SISTER RAY Suicide
26 EDDIE MOONEY & THE GRAVE I Bought Three Eggs
27 GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS

Disc two

1 THE FALL Flat Of Angles
2 STEROID KIDDIES Seaside Teaser
3 DIRECT HITS Back To The Sixties
4 FOREIGN PRESS Crossfire
5 CRISPY AMBULANCE Motorway Boys
6 I.Q. ZERO Insects
7 ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCS. We Want It Legalized
8 THE OUT Who is Innocent?
9 GODS GIFT These Days
10 MUD HUTTERS Danger
11 PATHETIX Love in Decay
12 PRIVATE SECTOR Just Wanna Stay Free
13 THE FRANTIC ELEVATORS Hunchback Of Notre Dame
14 FAST CARS You're So Funny
15 MISS KATE Ebony Eyes
16 GROW-UP The Best Thing
17 PROPERTY OF… Dance Like You're Dead
18 THE DISTRACTIONS Doesn't Bother Me
19 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Sketch For Summer
20 BET LYNCH'S LEGS Riders In The Sky
21 THE HOAX Storm Trooper
22 MANICURED NOISE Metronome
23 MAGAZINE A Song From Under The Floorboards
24 VIBRANT THIGH Walking Away
25 ENIGMA Play With Fire
26 THE STILL 9.5
27 SPURTZ Boyfriends Or Your Money Back
28 THE CHARLIE PARKAS Space Invaders

Disc three

1 IF ONLY Puppet Masters
2 THE CHEATERS (I Wanna Be A) Policeman
3 MANCHESTER MEKON Must Have More Wheels
4 BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Apathetic Hell
5 THE LIGGERS Recorded Or Live *
6 SECTION 25 Knew Noise
7 THE DIAGRAM BROS. There Is No Shower
8 THE THINGS Pieces Of You
9 DISLOCATION DANCE Familiar View
10 MARTIN HANNETT The Music Room
11 BLUE ORCHIDS The Flood (Demo) *
12 KEVIN HEWICK Haystack
13 ELECTRA COMPLEX Magic *
14 HAMSTERS Animal
15 BITING TONGUES You Can Choke Like That
16 THE FRESHIES Wrap Up The Rockets
17 LUDUS Hugo Blanco
18 MOTHMEN Temptation
19 A CERTAIN RATIO Waterline
20 BEE VAMP Lucky Grills
21 NEW ORDER Everything's Gone Green

Notes

3CD sequel to 2017's 'Manchester North Of England' which concentrates on music from the punk and post-punk years.

Available direct from Cherry Red.

Treatise on the Steppenwolf + Human Avatars (FBN 63 Record Store Day)

2LP (UK, 22.04.2023, Factory Benelux, FBN 63)

Tracklisting

A1. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1)
A2. Harry Dreams The Dream
A3. A Wolf Of The Steppes
A4. Interlude
A5. The Title On The Cover

B1. Divided
B2. Magic Theatre
B3. Soul Track
B4. The Mothers And The Fathers
B5. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 2)

C1. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 1)
C2. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 2)
C3. Human Avatars (Pt 3)

D1. Human Avatars (Pt 1)
D2. Human Avatars (Pt 2)

Notes

Factory Benelux presents the very first vinyl edition of the only soundtrack album recorded by The Durutti Column. A limited edition of 1000 copies on 180gm black vinyl for Record Store Day 2023.

Treatise on the Steppenwolf is a soundtrack to the performance piece of the same name by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty (of fellow Factory band The Wake), first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Freely adapted from the celebrated counter-culture novel by Hermann Hesse, the performance is a portrait a divided character in an ongoing state of conflict.

"Steppenwolf was something I'd read recently and when we approached Durutti Column with the idea it turned out they were interested too," explained McInulty. "People have described their music as ambient, although that's a description they don't care much for. It's certainly atmospheric and there's something about their sunny-sounding guitar that seemed appropriate to a book that, although published in 1927, didn't become popular in America until the 1960s."

This expanded vinyl edition combines the studio recordings of the 12 pieces performed live by The Durutti Column during the Glasgow run, along with 3 long and previously unreleased tracks from the Human Avatars art installation at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in 2005.

Newly mastered for vinyl by Peter Beckman at TechnologyWorks, this limited Record Store Day edition also features new gatefold artwork by Howard Wakefield.

Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979–89

4CD (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, EDSL0133)
7LP deluxe signed (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMRECBOX78X)
7LP regular (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMRECBOX78)
2LP (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMREC1081)

Tracklisting (4CD)

CD 1

1. I Should Have Known Better – Wire
2. A Better Home In The Phantom Zone – Bill Nelson’s Red Noise
3. Back To Nature – Magazine
4. Complicated Game (Steven Wilson 2014 Mix) - XTC
5. Careering – Public Image Limited
6. The Raven – The Stranglers
7. Puppet Life – Punishment Of Luxury
8. Astradyne (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) – Ultravox
9. Contract – Gang Of Four
10. I Travel (Extended Version) – Simple Minds
11. Sketch For Summer – The Durutti Column
12. Health And Efficiency - This Heat
13. Burning Car – John Foxx
14. Cognitive Dissonance (Steven Wilson 2022 Mix) – Robert Fripp And The League of Gentlemen
15. Fatal Day – In Camera

CD 2

1. I Can't Escape Myself - The Sound
2. The Eternal - Joy Division
3. Big Empty Field - Swell Maps
4. Enemies - Art Nouveau
5. The Joy Circuit - Gary Numan
6. The Gospel Comes To New Guinea - 23 Skidoo
7. All My Colours - Echo And The Bunnymen
8. Ghost Town (Extended Version) - The Specials
9. They All Run After The Carving Knife - New Musik
10. The Him - New Order
11. White Car In Germany (Single Edit) - The Associates
12. Hit - Section 2513. Sealand - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
14. Talking Drum - Japan
15. Faith - The Cure

CD 3

1. Three Dancers (Steven Wilson 2021 Mix) - Twelfth Night
2. Airwaves - Thomas Dolby
3. Are You Ready? - Crispy Ambulance
4. The Outsider - Rupert Hine
5. Knife Slits Water - A Certain Ratio
6. Memories Fade - Tears For Fears
7. Patient - Peter Hammill
8. Donimo - Cocteau Twins
9. In A Waiting Room - Mr And Mrs Smith And Mr Drake
10. Close (To The Edit) - The Art Of Noise
11. Dalis Car - Dalis Car
12. Rawhide - Scott Walker
13. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
14. Dream Within A Dream – Propaganda

CD 4

1. Waking The Witch - Kate Bush
2. Ivy And Neet - This Mortal Coil
3. Beehead (7” Version) - Perennial Divide
4. This Corrosion – The Sisters Of Mercy
5. Ascension - O Yuki Conjugate
6. No Motion - Dif Juz
7. Gutter Busting – SLAB!
8. Murderers, The Hope Of Women - Momus
9. The Host Of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
10. R.E.S. - Cardiacs
11. Good Morning Beautiful - The The
12. Omega Amigo - The Shamen
13. Night Sky, Sweet Earth - No-Man
14. The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule - Kitchens Of Distinction

Notes

Compilation assembled by acclaimed musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, Steven Wilson. The collection explores the creativity, experimentation and progressive spirit of alternative British music from 1979-1989. Features 'Sketch for Summer' by The Durutti Column. Other artists include Wire, XTC, The Stranglers, Ultravox, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Tears For Fears, and many more.

Circuses and Bread (Factory Benelux, FBN 154 / FBN 154 CD)

CD (UK, 29.01.2021, Factory Benelux, FBN 154 CD)
2LP (UK, 26.03.2021, Factory Benelux, FBN 154)

CD Tracklisting

1. For Pauline
2. Tomorrow
3. Dance II
4. For Hilary
5. Street Fight
6. Royal Infirmary
7. Black Horses
8. Dance I
9. Blind Elevator Girl - Osaka
10. All That Love and Maths Can Do
11. Florence Sunset
12. San Giovanni Dawn
13. For Friends In Italy
14. The Aftermath
15. Our Lady of the Angels (Stu 'Jammer' James Mix)

2LP Tracklisting

Side One

A1. For Pauline
A2. Tomorrow
A3. Dance II
A4. For Hilary
A5. Street Fight
B1. Royal Infirmary
B2. Black Horses
B3. Dance I

Side Two

C1. Blind Elevator Girl – Osaka
C2. The Aftermath
C3. Our Lady of the Angels (Stu 'Jammer' James Mix)
D1. Florence Sunset
D2. All That Love and Maths Can Do
D3. San Giovanni Dawn
D4. For Friends In Italy

Notes

Factory Benelux presents remastered CD and 2LP coloured vinyl editions of Circuses and Bread, the seventh studio album by The Durutti Column. Originally released by Factory Benelux and Factory in 1986, the original 9 tracks have now been expanded with 6 bonus pieces.

The cover art retains the original design by 8vo. The remastered vinyl set is housed in gatefold sleeve, with liner notes and rare band images.

Self-produced by Vini Reilly at Strawberry and Revolution studios, the album saw Durutti playing as a quartet, with Reilly on guitar, vocals and keyboards, Bruce Mitchell in drums and percussion, John Metcalfe (viola) and Tim Kellett (trumpet).

"The music ends up being very simple," Vini told NME. "People can dismiss it as being very simplistic, easy listening or whatever. It's very honest, it's very personal. People say it's ambient, and it's like Eno. I don't like that, because the music's made to be listened to, it's not wallpaper."

Of extended piece Blind Elevator Girl – Osaka, Vini adds: "The music really writes itself. For example, we’re in Osaka, in Japan, getting in this elevator. It"s very crowded with all these Japanese businessmen talking about distribution deals, and going on and on. On this lift was a beautiful Japanese girl, in an immaculate uniform. Each floor we arrived at, she's starting talking Japanese, obviously saying what was on each floor. We went higher and higher, and finally we get to the top. And then, sort of walking out of the elevator, I suddenly realised she was blind... It got to me, this girl. It was incredible. So maybe a day later, I was thinking about that, and the whole tune came out. And every single piece of music is like that."

Bonus tracks include Italian-only EP Greetings Three, scarce compilation track The Aftermath, and a previously unreleased working version of 1987 single Our Lady of the Angels produced by the late Stuart 'Jammer' James.

Cover art retains the original design by 8vo. The remastered set is housed in 6 panel card digipack, with liner notes and rare band images. A double vinyl version of FBN 154 will be issued in March 2021.

More information at factorybenelux.com.

Sex and Death (Factory Benelux, FBN 201 / FBN 201 CD)

2CD: UK 23.04.2021 (Factory Benelux, FBN 201 CD)
2LP: UK 23.04.2021 (Factory Benelux, FBN 201)

2CD Tracklisting

CD1

1. Anthony
2. The Rest of My Life
3. For Colette
4. The Next Time
5. Beautiful Lies
6. My Irascible Friend
7. Believe In Me
8. Fermina
9. Where I Should Be
10. Fado
11. Madre Mio
12. Blue Period

CD2

1. Believe In Me (Mix 1)
2. You Mess Me Up
3. My Only Love (aka Duet)
4. Believe In Me (Mix 2)
5. Picking Guitar for the Shrimp
6. Get Me to the Beat On Time
7. Jumble Drums, Growling Bass and the Whammy Bar
8. For Cameron de la Isla
9. War Torn
10. The Celestial Bar

2LP Tracklisting

LP1

A1. Anthony
A2. The Rest of My Life
A3. For Colette
A4. The Next Time
B1. Beautiful Lies
B2. My Irascible Friend
B3. Believe In Me
B4. Fermina

LP2

C1. Where I Should Be
C2. Fado
C3. Madre Mio
C4. Blue Period
C5. War Torn
D1. Picking Guitar for the Shrimp
D2. The Celestial Bar
D3. Jumble Drums, Growling Bass and the Whammy Bar
D4. For Cameron de la Isla

Notes

Factory Benelux presents expanded double CD and double vinyl editions of Sex and Death, the 11th studio album by The Durutti Column.

Originally released in 1994 on CD only, the album has now been re-mastered with bonus tracks and appears on vinyl for the very first time in a coloured vinyl edition limited to 1500 copies. The vinyl edition is housed in a gatefold vinyl sleeve. Disc 1 is pressed in blue vinyl, and disc 2 in silver.

The 2CD edition is remastered with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks.

The writing and recording of Sex and Death closed an uncertain period for Vini Reilly and the group following the collapse of Factory Records in 1992. Factory founder Tony Wilson remained in post as manager of the band, but Sex and Death would be their last album with producer Stephen Street, famed for his work with Morrissey, The Smiths and Blur.

Writer and master guitarist Vini Reilly remained philosophical: "People say the Durutti Column is this or that. I don't care, so long as we make good music. There's screaming feedback on some tracks, heavy metal guitar, Spanish picking. It's not just this ethereal trip. Don't listen to the form, never listen to the form. Listen to the content."

Stand-out tracks include Anthony (dedicated to Wilson), The Rest of My Life and believe In Me. Guest musicians include viola player John Metcalfe, vocalist Ruth-Ann Boyle (later to form hitmakers Olive with Tim Kellett), programmer Martin Jackson (Magazine, Swing Out Sister) and bassist Peter Hook, then on furlough from New Order post-Republic.

Of the 10 bonus tracks on CD2, 6 are previously unreleased, having been retrieved from a long-lost DAT tape located in Tony Wilson's personal archive. The other 4 are album outtakes previously only available as an online download. All tracks have been newly re-mastered in 2020 by Peter Beckmann and Technology Works.

A limited edition 2LP coloured vinyl edition is also available housed in a gatefold vinyl sleeve and limited to 1500 copies.

Cosmic - St Valentin's Day selected by Daniele Baldelli [2LP]

2LP: IT 21.01.21 (Use Vinyl Records, UVR 10521)

Tracklisting

Side A

1. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer
2. Nef - Apparition À L'endroit
3. Francesco Messina - Harem
4. Peter Baumann - The Third Site

Side B

1. Gabor Szabo - Keep Smilin'
2. Herb Alpert - Love Is
3. J.J. Cale - Ride Me High
4. Neil Larsen - Sudden Samba

Side C

1. Jorge Ben - O Dia Que O Sol Declarou O Seu Amor Pela Terra
2. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Ye-Me-Le
3. Zulu Gang - I Got A Magic Feeling Making Love
4. Naná Vasconcelos - Rekebra

Side D

1. D.C. LaRue - I Don't Want To Loose You
2. Sammy Gordon & The Hip Huggers - Making Love
3. Le Pamplemousse - Gimmie What You Got
4. Sea Level - Sneakers (Fifty-Four)

Notes

This record celebrates the very popular and crowded St. Valentine's party held on 14 Feb at the "Cosmic" discotheque near Verona where Daniele Baldelli was the resident DJ.

'Sketch for Summer' by The Durutti Column is Track 1 Side 1.

Available from afrocosmicshop.com and other retailers. 

Rebellion [LP blue vinyl, Demon, DEMREC743]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 743)

Tracklisting

4 Sophia
Longsight Romance
Geh Cak Af En Yam
The Fields Of Athenry
Overlord Part One
Falling
Voluntary Arrangement
Mello Part One
Mello Part Two
Protest Song
Meschugana

Notes

Single LP on blue vinyl. Pressed on 140g blue vinyl, housed in a printed inner sleeve.

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Keep Breathing [2LP red vinyl, Demon, DEMREC744]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 744)

Tracklisting

LP1

Nina

It's Wonderful

Maggie

Helen

Neil

Big Hole

LP2

Let Me Tell You Something

Lunch

Gun

Tuesday

Agnus Dei

Waiting

Notes

Pressed on two 140g red vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Love In The Time Of Recession [2LP amber vinyl, Demon, DEMREC745]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 745) 

Tracklisting

LP1

In Memory Of Anthony

Rant

More Rainbows

I’m Alive

For Bruce

Painting

LP2

Wild Beat Tamed

Rainbow Maker

My Poppy

Loser

Lock-Down

Notes

Pressed on two 140g translucent amber vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Someone Else's Party [2LP clear vinyl, Demon, DEMREC746]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 746) 

Tracklisting 

Side one 

Love Is A Friend

Spanish Lament

Somewhere

Somebody’s Party

Requiem For My Mother

Remember

Side two

Vigil

Blue

No More Hurt

Spasmic Fairy

American View

Drinking Time

Woman

Goodbye

Notes

Pressed on two 140g clear vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Idiot Savants [Demon, DEMREC658]

LP: UK 29/08/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 658) 

Tracklisting

Better Must Come

Interleukin 2 (For Anthony)

Please Let Me Sleep 

2 Times Nice 

No Last Surprise 

Gathering Dust 

Whisper To The Wind 

That Blows My Name Away (For Rachel)

Notes 

Single LP on white vinyl released for Record Store Day 2020 by Demon on 29 August 2020.

Reissue of original Idiot Savants album on Artful/Fulfill from 2007 and the first ever release on vinyl.